Actor Richa Chadha has taken on a powerful role, that of a Dalit woman with political ambitions, in her upcoming film Madam Chief Minister. The film’s poster, now retracted, was in controversy for showing a Dalit woman holding a broom, a stereotypical representation of the community according many critics, and for using the word “untouchable” on […]
The first female Dalit writer who expressed her views against the discriminatory practices and norm of the society and a student of Savirtibai Phule.
A group of villagers were evoked to clean and purify a temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur district, after a Dalit BJP woman MLA offered prayers to the deity at a local temple. As per reports, the temple was cleaned with Gangajal and the idol was sent to Allahabad for purification in the holy water of […]
Mimi Mondal, a 30-year-old writer and editor from Kolkata, has recently been nominated for the prestigious Hugo Awards 2018. The award is given to writers for their work in science fiction. Previous Hugo nominees include names like Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Neil Gaiman. Mondal has received this nomination for co-editing her first science […]
A recent event in Delhi involving the band ‘BhangiJumping’  has put the spotlight on dignity of labour. The band’s name led to widespread protests as the term ‘bhangi’ means unclean and was used for manual scavengers. Following the uproar, the Piano Man Jazz Club, where the band was to perform, issued an apology for hurting the […]
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution, studied at the London School of Economics and at Columbia University in the US, completing PhD in Economics. He used education as a tool to rise above and become one of the great leaders of modern India. He was the 1st Dalit student to complete his college, […]
